Can you believe that the new Republican party platform is homophobic? Yes, of course you can. Absolutely nobody is surprised by this news — except for the one group of people who should definitely have known better: Gay Republicans.
The platform is pushing the far limits of how homophobic politicians are allowed to be in this day and age. It wants to criminalize trans people for using the bathroom. It supports ex-gay torture camps. It opposes marriage equality, of course. It even calls for overturning the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality — somehow — and getting rid of judges who acknowledge that the Constitution protects all Americans, not just straight ones.
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Bless their dumb hearts, some queer Republicans tried to get more inclusive language in there. One woman even tried to make it more tempting for her colleagues with the promise of a little xenophobia: Rachel Hoff, a delegate, proposed a sentence about how Muslims are trying to kill LGBTs. But her colleagues shouted her down, saying that it was wrong to single out queer people as victims. Yeah, of course, because then they’d have to admit that they’re complicit in that victimization.
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And now gay Republicans are in a huff, acting all surprised that things turned out as they have. “I’m mad as hell…This isn’t my GOP, and I know it’s not yours either,” said a fundraising email sent by the Log Cabin Republicans. Hahaha, yes it is, of course it is, when has this ever not been the GOP? The email also suggests that Donald Trump is nicer about gays than this platform is — but that’s not really true either.
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The email then goes on to ask each recipient to donate hundreds of dollars (must be nice to be a Republican and have all that extra cash lying around) so they can … do something? Anything? The email hints at buying advertisements around the upcoming convention, as if that’ll do any good or change any Republican minds.
Or maybe the Log Cabin Republicans need the money because they’ve finally figured out the only way to win the support of a politician: bribe ’em.
rand503
I read their plea. Send them money and what will they do with it? Hire a lobbyist to try to change the language? Ain’t gonna happen.
I think they just want to upgrade their flights to Cleveland to First Class and need the money for that. Plus higher quality trade once they get there.
Invader7
What the hell did the LCR expect? They support the rabidly ANTI-GAY , HOMOPHOBIC gop/republithug party which officially wants the glbtg community DEAD. It’s like a Jew supporting Hilter !!! I don’t feel one bit for the elitist queers who vote per their economic status. They THOUGHT the gop would support them. The gop USED you self-loathing glbtq idiots !! Of course they’ll continue to support the gop- it’s called NO self-esteem, No self worth, coupled with a horrible self image. Go see a good shrink and collectively work on yourselves. I ,as, a self affirming man ,who happens, to be gay -would NEVER ever support or help the HATE filled gop fascist party. It is anti-gay,anti-women, anti-American !!!
Goforit
What did they expect? You lie down with dogs, you are gonna get fleas.
Mack
The Log Cabin Republicans are just trying to make themselves feel relevant in a group that actually hates their every being. Sure they want their votes but once they’ve done that they want them to go hide and not embarrass them.
Scribe38
The LCR are like abused dogs begging to be loved. How many times do they need to be kicked to get the message that they are just not wanted?
Paco
I wonder if the LCR members personal relationships are just as abusive as the one they have with the GOP.
My equal rights come before any other issue, and that is something the republicans will never deliver.
Mo Bro
It’s “xenophobic” to point out that Muslims kill gays?
It’s called a “fact” in my book.
Brian
Milo Yiannopoulos is a gay-identifying man who is rooting for Donald Trump. He’s become a sensation.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
LOL Milo be be going for an Olympic gold in mental gymnastics event trying to spin this shit
mjmarkic
After being shit all over, they just need more toilet paper to remove it…IDIOTS1
Joe T
I’ll never get gay Republicans. They obviously don’t like themselves very much, so they’re probably cool with this.
cabe
Guy Benson, the gay Fox News contributor says that gays should “just get over it”. I find him insufferable.
o.codone
I love Milo, he speaks the truth, and he’s a sensation Gays are idiots for voting for hillary. She has tens of thousands of syrian friends who she intends to bring here and who will file injunctions against offensive anti-muslim pride parades. It’s suicidal. I can’t wait to vote for Donald Trump. Make America Great Again.
hillary is the 1% or the 1%, we hate her because she’s a liar and had to send Bill to lay down the law to Loretta Lynch about how things were going to go down with the FBI. She can’t even get top security clearance that a president must have. Criminal, liar, crooked hillary. gay moron democrats who support her. she will do more damage to the gay community than Trump. Guaranteed.
gayhope1990
Gay people who vote for Republican party are like Uncle Tom.They score an own goal by backing our enemies.
cs7077
It’s like Charlie Brown with the football.
o.codone
Two days after the supreme court ruled against the Obama amnesty plan, Gian carlo was deported. He’s not “taking a break” from the mean girls on Queerty, he’s back in his native country in a jungle with tin foil cell phone towers. Another illegal vote lost to hill ary.
tjr101
Will gay Republicans ever pull their heads out of Trump’s a** and grow a spine? How pathetic is this group?
The GOP platform was basically written by America’s band of right-wing extremist that will make Hitler blush in his grave. Yep, their goal is to make America “great” again, by turning it into a 3rd world country run by theocrats.
scott747
@Goforit: Actually they’re gonna get shat on which is exactly what happened.
cdinsf
@Invader7: Yeah, you pretty much summed it up.
Bob LaBlah
Log Cabin Republicans generally are from the privilege class. They are more likely to own their own businesses, have high incomes and live in suburbia or in one of those overpriced closets in a newly developed part of a big city. I don’t fault their choices except this one time. They, just as all the rest who marched blindly in step now realize the consequences of not looking CLOSELY at what sure as hell was and DID come to pass. Donald Trump.
How no one noticed this guys vocabulary was on par with a community college freshman than world leaders is beyond me. No one questioned anything and those that knew simply kept their mouths shut. This is how…………this is what happened back in the 1930’s in Europe and look what happened once that loud mouthed idiot come to power. How do todays backers differ from “his”, especially after recent events?
DCguy
Two things.
1. The Log Cabin Republicans knew the party was anti-lgbt. They are pretending to be shocked to try to raise a little money, but there was no surprise here, they have been supporting a rabidly anti-lgbt party for years.
2. I see the memo went out in their organization on how to try to deflect from this. They have nothing so they will try to bring up “Muslims hate gays!” Hey guys, know why that one doesn’t work? Because your party hates them at least as much. What us more dangerous to us here in America. Some cleric in Saudi Arabia whof hates us, or the Republicans here trying to take away all our rights.
Nice try, but if your organization had ANY integrity left you would do what it did years and years ago when Patric Guarino was president and refused to endorse Bush for being anti-lgbt. Your group won’t do that now because you are not different then any other anti-lgbt group. You are fully supporting a group that wants to attack us and take our rights away.
DCguy
@o.codone:
So let me get this straight, you hate Hilary because she’s a “liar” but lgbts should vote for Trump because he is lying about how much he hates us.
You guys need to have another meeting to work out THAT discrepancy.
o.codone
@DCguy: You said: “What us more dangerous to us here in America. Some cleric in Saudi Arabia who hates us, or the Republicans here trying to take away all our rights”.
Muslims in the gayborhood are much more dangerous. You won’t be able to walk the streets without being cat called, or worse, spat upon and called swine the way Jew’s in Paris are being treated today. You will have to go back in the closet. Besides all that, why would you even want that Clinton scum back in the WH? Did she not overthrow Gaddafi for no reason, when he was cooperating with us? Lie about Benghazi being about a video? (when they were sending arms to ISIS to overthrow Assad). ISIS blew up Palmyra with the dynamite Clinton gave them. Totally fuck up the email situation and then need the entire government to pull her out of her shit? And then go back over 25 years of bull sh it that she’s been involved in. You want this slime as president. I cannot wait to say “I told you so”. In fact, I’ll tell you now, you’re an idiot.
rbillp
The Republican Agenda has now made itself clear that it wants to do away with homosexuals. It wants to take away our rights as Americans, the rights of women, repeal the Affordable Care Act, and of course the transgender community’s right to use the bathroom of their gender choice, which should be a non issue. They want to do away with Internet Porn, but where does that stop? And what about freedom of speech? Is that a part of this? Abortion must be abolished. Planned Parenthood should become a thing of the past. Hugh! The gay republicans are appalled, so they say, but are asking for donations to help fight, but what does this mean? Can they not see how dangerous this all is? Those who opposed this ridiculous agenda, were shot down at the pre convention meeting. The Religious Right is getting its Agenda out in front of Human Rights.We have fought long and hard to get where we are today. We must go on with our fight, get out and vote, and take control of our lives. Bigotry in any form can not be tolerated. I may be reacting to this too strongly, but this has gotten me very upset and forgive me if I am just mouthing off. It is still my right and I will defend that in any way I can.
1EqualityUSA
Cultural assimilation tends towards more freedoms and fewer restrictions, rather than the other way.
DCguy
@o.codone: stated:@DCguy: You said: “What us more dangerous to us here in America. Some cleric in Saudi Arabia who hates us, or the Republicans here trying to take away all our rights”.
Muslims in the gayborhood are much more dangerous. You won’t be able to walk the streets without being cat called, or worse, spat upon and called swine the way Jew’s in Paris are being treated today. You will have to go back in the closet.”
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So lets see, currently, if the Democrats are in power and a “scaaaarrrrrryyyy Muslim” spits on us, or in other way seeks to harm us, we can go to the police, they will be charged with a hate crime and arrested.
If the GOP is in charge, they have stated that lgbts will be taken out of the list of hate crime targets, they will institute “religious freedom” legislation that will allow bullies in school who beat up lgbts to use their religion as a defense. AND they want to pass laws that allow any business to not serve us.
So once again, the fact that you are so vigorously defending a group that is SO anti-lgbt shows that you are nothing more than another anti-lgbt troll. There is no other thing to call you. You want to lie and invent a fake foreign boogeyman to try to hide the fact that the political party you support is no less anti-lgbt than those “Scarrrry Muslims” over in Saudi Arabia that you keep screaming we should be afraid of. If a person defended rapists rights to rape by telling rape victims, “Well there are MURDERERS out there, so rape shouldn’t bother you!” There would be no argument that they were supportive of rape. This is exactly what you are doing with a viciously anti-lgbt group. You are supporting that bigotry.
And again, the laws passed by the Democrats are what protect us from anti-gay attacks….just like the ones your party wants to commit on us according to their platform.
Kangol
Who is surprised by their pathetic hypocrisy. The LCR is happy they have a white supremacist misogynist billionaire heading the Republican ticket. LCR members whine about the GOP hating gays, including them, but then the Log Cabinettes rush to support them. It’s worse than Stockholm Syndrome!
gayhope1990
@DCguy:I agree with you ?.Moreover on pinknews I read the GOP has a platform for “gay cure” or they back anti lgbt laws.The elephant’s party wants to build a theocracy and use the so called millions of Muslim refugees as scapegoats for attracting naive people.
DCguy
@gayhope1990:
Perfectly said!
@Kangol: Yes!
1EqualityUSA
Dark shadows would have his Vice President taking his place within a year. Twelve men in a smoky room would roll it out his nibs for their man and immediately place zealots on the bench. Chaos breeds fear and Republicans shovel fear onto the masses. Total pants-shitters, they are. I’m so grossed out on the GOP. Necrotic. I’ll need Vic’s vapor rub smeared onto the inside of my mask by November. What a world-wide, colossal embarrassment for the United States. I can see why people get cranky over the years. See enough of these fiascoes and we’re bound to be edgy. This feels as though it were a frustration dream, from which I cannot escape, the kind that leave me exhausted upon awakening. The flat tire in his plane seems symbolic to me.
o.codone
@DCguy: You said: “And again, the laws passed by the Democrats are what protect us from anti-gay attacks”.
Oops you may have forgotten about how those Democrat laws protected 49 gay men from being murdered by an Islamic gay hater in Orlando two weeks ago. Muslims are really afraid of you and your sissy laws. Some day you will realize that you have created the problem by electing scum like Clinton who will kiss the asses of muslims. She doesn’t give a shit about the kind of violence she (and you) are introducing into the gay community. She lives in Chappaqua, an all white, hetersexual, protestant community for only 1%’ers. Muslims are not going to spit on her or call her names. But that’s coming your way bro, it’s going to happen to you.
Bob LaBlah
@o.codone: “She doesn’t give a shit about the kind of violence she (and you) are introducing into the gay community.”
She also was very hesitant to speak out against the Orlando shooting because she didn’t want to offend a certain segment of her base whose church is well known for its homophobia towards members of their community who happen to be gay. Its obvious the word police program will not allow me to say just who that community is but I am sure you can put two and two together.
Its sad some gay men are so intellectually depraved these days of late where they still take offense to the truths being brought to their attention.
o.codone
@DCguy:You said: “And again, the laws passed by the Democrats are what protect us from anti-gay attacks”.
Go ahead run to the police and let them know that there’s a muslim with a truck running people over. Officer, officer, can you please go stop that please, it might even be a hate crime, there might be gay people in that crowd.
Let me just laugh out loud at you right now because of your stupidity. Vote for Hillary and I will remind you every single time a gay man is murdered, spit upon, punched, cat called, bullied or maimed by a muslim. I will remind you that it was YOU and all the other gays who voted for Hillary who brought this hell to our communities, when they show up at Pride to show their hatred. I will remind you every day that YOU made that happen, that you are responsible because you voted for Hillary.
DCguy
@o.codone: stated: @DCguy:You said: “And again, the laws passed by the Democrats are what protect us from anti-gay attacks”.
Go ahead run to the police and let them know that there’s a muslim with a truck running people over. Officer, officer, can you please go stop that please, it might even be a hate crime, there might be gay people in that crowd.
Let me just laugh out loud at you right now because of your stupidity.
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Please explain what your comment means. Are you saying that police won’t listen? That police didn’t shoot the guy?
And lets see, if the GOP platform passes, and all of us get fired from our jobs because the GOP want anybody who claims a religious basis for bigotry to legally fire us tell me, is THAT protecting us? Kind of hard to run to the police when you can’t afford shoes because it is legal to fire anybody who is lgbt.
Again, all you have is the “Scary Foreign Boogeyman”. But please explain to me the difference between the GOP platform and the anti-lgbt laws of any of these scary countries. We are under direct assault here from the GOP, and you are over in the corner jumping up and down screaming “Hey, don’t look over there, look across the ocean, there’s something scary there!
And lastly, you can’t convince me you give 2 sh*ts about people being killed since your party goes dead silent anytime there is a mass school shooting. Apparently they only care about French people killed by a Muslim, but American school children slaughtered by a non-Muslim don’t deserve the same concern, nor 9 African Americans slaughtered in a church by a white supremacist. Oh, that’s right, those aren’t scary foreign boogeymen, so they aren’t as good for distracting attention away from the GOP platform’s attack on all lgbts
Paco
@o.codone: “Vote for Hillary and I will remind you every single time a gay man is murdered, spit upon, punched, cat called, bullied or maimed by a muslim.”
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Most instances of LGBT Americans being murdered, spit upon, punched, cat called, bullied or maimed is by their fellow homophobic Americans. Homophobic Americans that are encouraged by the right wing religious extremist Republicans to treat LGBT people as ‘other’ and not worthy of being protected from hate crimes or discrimination. I’m more scared of the religious extremists in the Republican Party than I am of Islamic terrorists. Legislated hate is far more dangerous, and eventually, even hate based laws won’t be enough to satisfy them if they are allowed to proceed with their platform unchallenged.